I couldn’t get that Magnetic Fields song out of my head for about a week (thanks, Mark). Turns out that San Francisco can be all that pretty, no matter what Stephin Merritt says. That may explain why I enjoyed the 2008 Modern Language Association conference, held in SF Dec. 27-30, more than the 2007 gathering in Chicago (brrr). If you’re curious about what 8,400 lit-and-crit professors wanted to talk about this time around, here are links to some of my reports from the convention:
Market Realities in San Francisco
